The goal in Vietnam was to stop a Communist-backed insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

And Rutherford, who I have already described to you as being a little bit colorful in his language, backed up Bohr on this.

而卢瑟福，就是以前我跟你们提过的那个,语言丰富生动的人，在这一点上证实了波尔的理论。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one, "-- a lot to backed that up in social science research.

爱默生说：,“人类历史是少数派，和一个人的少数派的权力记录，很多社会科学研究支持这个观点。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

This week,Bank of America said it received a letter from investors holding almost fifty billion dollars in mortgage-backed securities.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

In other words, securities that were themselves backed by subprime loans.

所谓次级债券,就是那些靠次级贷款担保的证券

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

My father backed the car out of his place in the barn.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Prospects for including Lebanon in the peace process have improved with the victory of a Western-backed coalition in elections, this week.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

An SIV is a company of a sort that invests in assets and they issue something like asset-backed commercial paper, but it's not a real company because it only exists as an organization sponsored by some bank.

IV类似从事资产投资的公司,同时也发行类似资产担保商业票据的证券,但它不是一家真正的公司,因为它只是由某家银行建立的一个组织

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The roads to the festival site were choked with cars backed up for over 100 kilometers in all directions.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

A U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion in 2006 ousted the Islamic Courts Union from power, pushing al-Shabab deep into southern Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

House members voted 209 to 193 in favor of the Democrat-backed legislation late Friday, siding largely along party lines.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

The red shirts accuse the government of being backed by the military that staged a coup against Thaksin in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

The Washington-backed talks broke down in July, after interim leaders refused to allow Mr.Zelaya to return to office.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

After President Zelaya was forced from office in June in an army-backed coup he came to the U.N.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

In many areas,villages were burned by Janjaweed militia, the government-backed, mainly Arab forces that pushed many Black African farmers from their land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

It is also the subject of a U.N.-backed tribunal which is considering indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The French government said they were in Mogadishu working as security advisors to Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The Mexican government says more than 22,000 people have been killed in Mexico since a U.S.-backed crackdown on cartels began three years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

A state-backed group overseeing the company's restructuring plan has agreed to give JAL $3 billion in capital.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Ethiopia's army entered Somalia in 2006 to drive out an al-Shabab backed administration in Mogadishu, but encountered stiff opposition and withdrew earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

At the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Mr.Netanyahu also accused the western-backed Palestinian Authority of incitement.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

The United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon has backed Israel's version of events following the most serious border clash in four years on Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Noting that all organizations compete fiercely for funding, Feltman denied the Obama administration has backed away from groups supporting civil society and similar programs in Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Yet,in comments aired by the European Commission-backed network Euronews, Moldova's leading civil rights activist Natalia Morari, suggests that young people want pro-Western candidates, such as Ghimpu,to take power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

In a deal backed by the United Nations, a moderate leader of the Islamic Courts Union, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, was elected president of the Mogadishu-based Somali government earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The Hezbollah-led opposition in Lebanon is taking advantage of the decision by a United Nations-backed tribunal to release four senior generals, Wednesday,to score points ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The Kenyan-born suspect reportedly was highly involved in al-Shabab's fight against the Western-backed transitional federal government and participated actively in the insurgency against Ethiopian troops after the 2006 invasion and subsequent occupation of Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

It is the result of a bloody division of Cyprus in 1974, when Turkey invaded the northern part of the island, in response to a military coup that was backed by the Greek government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Ted Dagne,African Affairs Specialist with the Congressional Research Service, predicted that violence is likely to increase in coming months as the Islamist group al-Shabaab, backed by foreign fighters, attempts to oust the transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26